On the Use of AI
Things that raise questions about efficacy of AI…either in a good way or bad way.
On the Use of AI
In the realm of AI ... machines are made to behave in wondrous ways, often sufficient to dazzle even the most experienced observer.
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Joseph Weizenbaum, “ELIZA: A Computer Program for the Study of Natural Language Communication between Man and Machine,” Communications of the ACM 9, no. 1 (January 1966).
The account of the sixth day should be written, He gave them speech, and they became souls.
– Whitehead
Philosophical Essays
Seems to be what LLM proponents believe
So far, over the past 2 years, I have invested more time trying to make genAI work for me than what genAI has saved me. Maybe by a 2-3x factor. But I will keep trying.
François Cholletx.comFrancois here speaks to coding, but this estimate mirrors my experience with non-coding tasks.
A new paper in Nature found that you cannot, in fact, train AIs on AI-generated data and expect them to continue improving.
What happens is actually that the model collapses and ends up producing nonsense.
Nature paper demonstrates that training AI on AI-generated data eventually produces nonsense (as expected?).
Uhhhhh more questions re: math?
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I can’t decide if I love this or hate it
A single Nvidia GPU consumes the same energy as a typical U.S. home
Pretty wild stat https://t.co/Xw91ne4Sm4
energy consumption continues to be a problem